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The purchase power of governments is fundamental to land policy change in the U.S. The power to acquire certain land services augments the powers to regulate and tax as state and local units respond to the public demand to retain undeveloped land for the various services it provides. By Lawrence Libby
One of the most valuable "sticks" in the fee simple bundle of rights commonly known as "private property" is the right to develop that land (Lindstrom, 2000). A conservation easement is a legal instrument designed to temporarily or perpetually remove the right to develop from other rights in the bundle (Gustanksi and Squires, 2000). That right is typically severed from other ownership rights and conveyed to a unit of government or a qualified non-profit conservation organization for the public benefits linked to open or undeveloped land. The right to develop cannot be exercised by the...
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I. M. Sheldon, "Regulation of Biotechnology: Will We Ever Freely Trade GMOs?" European Review of Agricultural Economics, 29 (January) 2002 (pdf of conference version)
The purpose of this paper is to consider how economics as a social science may help organize our thinking about farmland protection policy in the U.S. Every state and many localities have enacted policies to alter the pattern of development in the interest of keeping more land in farms see American Farmland Trust, 1997 and Daniels and Bowers, 1997). The policy instruments range from regulating the land market, to public purchase of the landowner=s right to develop the land, to organized Αwishful thinking≅ about the future through land use planning. All of these techniques alter the options...
Precision farming practices may influence precision farmers' preferences for alternative forms of land lease and may influence the relationships negotiated between landlord and tenant. This paper discusses attributes of cash and share leases, the two primary lease types employed in Ohio, discuss principles of lease design to mitigate perverse economic incentives, suggest implications of precision farming for the choice of lease type. Evidence is presented from the 1999 Precision Farming Survey and the 2001 Precision Farming Case Studies that may shed light on how precision farmers are...
Traffic congestion is the proverbial “rain on the parade” of suburbanites headed for work every morning and back to paradise in the evening. Circling “trafficopters” report with CNN-like urgency of another accident on the north side, backing up traffic for miles. Wrecker is on the way, seek alternative routes. Then there are the cheerful reminders that orange barrels have sprouted like spring flowers along the interstate. DOT is widening and smoothing the linear parking lot. “Stuck in traffic” is the great equalizer -- lawyers headed downtown from their golf course subdivision, real estate...
This conference focuses on one category of policy tools - regulations. Speakers are policy researchers and agency leaders. Conference participants are national, state and local land use policy people, leaders of groups supporting farmland protection and growth management, planners, analysts, and educators. By Lawrence Libby
By incorporating the spatially arrangement of counties relative to each other, this paper uses a land use share model to investigate the possibility that the allocation of land use in one county could be influenced by not only the degree to which the county is zoned, but also the degree to which neighboring counties are zoned due to spillovers of zoning effects among neighboring counties. The estimation uses data on land use for 88 counties in Ohio. By Lawrence Libby
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